November/December 2025

features

Poverty and Deportees on the Streets in Tijuana

PHOTOS BY DAVID BACON AND AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURA VELASCO

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.

BY NICK FRENCH

Discredited

The Ham-fisted Tyranny of the Credit Agency Oligopoly

BY ROB LARSON

the regulars

the short run

comment | Labor Organizing Without Labor Rights

making sense | The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

up against the wall street journal | The Decline of Social Mobility

economy in narrative | Means, Ends, and Super Pigs

economy in numbers | The Significance of Living Wages